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Counterclockwise is our weekly trip down memory lane. We recount some great (and some sad) stories of the past. This week smartphone OSes vie for market share while Sony and Motorola fail to capture certain market niches, games and music...

Samsung is extending its application store - Samsung Apps - to new, unconquered territories. Samsung Apps offers a selection of over 500 apps, both paid and free, for Omnia phones - both for ones with Windows Mobile and for ones with Symbian...

Now that's a sight that can make a geek's heart melt - six of the finest mobile phones of the year, laying next to each other. The reason behind this unusual gathering is a display comparison review that an Italian blog has conducted. For some...

Those WinMo fans are by far the luckiest fellas recently. After the four announcements by Samsung yesterday, it now came time for LG to stand in the spotlight. The nicely-spec'd LG GM730 is available in the Australian and Asian market from today...

Two new members of the WinMo-running Omnia family complete the list of Samsung announcements for today. The Samsung B7320 OmniaPRO will appeal to heavy texters with a full QWERTY keyboard, while the Samsung OmniaLITE is targeted for users on a...

After loads and loads of rumors and leaks, Samsung finally introduced two new touch-operated handsets. The feature phone Samsung S8000 Jet and the WinMo-running Samsung I8000 Omnia II come to reinforce the company full-touch handsets portfolio....

The Samsung I8000 made its first public appearance thanks to a Lithuanian online retailer. The I8000 pointed as the Omnia2 will sport a huge AMOLED touchscreen, 8.1 megapixel camera, full pack connectivity and Windows Mobile OS.
Samsung I8000...

Here's a phone that looks like a knock-off of the Samsung S8300 but it isn't - meet the Samsung B7300. Although it's like an UltraTOUCH without the slide, it's more like a sugar-free Omnia.
The leaked Samsung B7300 runs a TouchWiz-skinned...

We are back with yet another episode of Samsung Leaks online series. Staring this time is Samsung M7600 – a music-centered touchscreen handset. Promising to have the power of a small DJ station the handset comes with Bang & Olufsen audio. Meanwhile...

Samsung revealed a reloaded version of the i900 Omnia, which comes in purple to complement the already existing black and white versions. New security and social applications plus new home screen widgets are among the new stuff, which quite...

Today is a great day for touchscreen lovers. After Toshiba announced their WinMo-powered multimedia monster, it's now LG prime time. A photo of the high-end touchscreen phone LG KM900 Arena leaked online. The handset features a high quality touch...

The countdown timer till the next Mobile World Congress (MWC) is ticking. It starts in less than a month and today the GSMA announced the finalists for the 14th Global Mobile Awards.
As usual, we'll focus on the third category - Best Mobile...

Vodafone presented this year's holiday mobile phones that they will be offering on contract and Pay-as-you-talk basis. The contract handsets include some really nice recent phones, while the PAYT devices are more affordable but still...

According to an online source, Samsung has officially revealed the price and availability of their latest smartphone Samsung i7110.
Samsung i7110 official photos
The phone we've already previewed will be released in Germany first under...

The Samsung T*OMNIA comes with a larger 3.3-inch screen and four times the pixels. There's also a DMB TV tuner on board for watching terrestrial digital TV on the go. Of course the new T*OMNIA is larger than the original standing at 115.2 x 58.1 x...

The 8 megapixel full touchscreen Samsung M8800 seems to have been announced today - rather quietly in fact. And it's already been previewed by a Russian team, which provides some nice images along the way.
The Samsung M8800, be it Bresson or...

It seems that HTC are prepping a new white jacket for their Touch Diamond. Dressed in snow white, the new Diamond will be out by October winning some more market share for HTC.
As The Unwired reports, HTC have officially announced that the...

The unofficial debut of an Asus device is heralded today by a bunch of live pictures leaked on the web. Rumor has it the Asus Glaxy7 features a massive 3.5" touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera and a body made of stainless steel.
Should the...

Today, leaked info at the US FCC website revealed that the US HSDPA-enabled Samsung Omnia is bound to the AT&T network under the name of Samsung i907 Omnia.
Although we didn't know the exact model designation, the news comes as no surprise as...

Samsung officially confirmed today the new color version of their top-of-the-line PocketPC – the i900 Omnia. The iPhonesque rear must be just what some of the WinMo fans out there have been waiting for.
Luckily, to us at least, Omnia’s...